Using examples from work experience evaluate the effectiveness of polices and procedures for promoting health, safety and security.

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Sabina Bibi 6LB

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Using examples from work experience evaluate the effectiveness of polices and procedures for promoting health, safety and security.

In this assignment I will be using examples from work experience evaluate the effectiveness of policies and procedures for promoting health, safety and security. I will be focusing on policies and procedures in a health and social care setting. Residential homes and the health centres have a number of policies and procedures that are followed.  These policies and procedures ensured safety and security for all service users and staff.

Policies and procedures are very important when working in a business or care setting; they are there to keep staff members and service users safe from danger. The Acts of Parliament introduced policies and procedures so that business and care setting will follow them correctly. But however if the policies and procedures are not followed or in its place then there can be dangerous issues like a individual hurting themselves in a fire, or accidentally touching a needle that was not disposed properly or personal information being leaked out to others, another problem could be a patient received the wrong prescription and then ended up taking the wrong medication which could seriously harm the individual or even cause death.    

It is very important to have policies and procedures in a care business; the reason for this is because it will keep staff members and services users from danger or harm that could happen.  I think that it is good that the law introduced policies and procedures because if they didn’t a lot of harm could have happened to people. For example if a fire was accidentally started in a health centre it could be very dangerous to everyone that is in the building and this is where policies and procedures come in as there will be a less chance that a fire would happen but however even if a fire did start it might not be as dangerous as it was before because now there are fire alarms that detect if a fire is started and the alarm is very loud which will alert staff members if a fire was started – this is more safer than before because there were no policies and procedures. Also the fire alarms will be checked by staff in the health centres to check that it is working properly.  

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To keep service users safe it is vital that policies in a care business is followed carefully, by following the policies this allows the staff members to know what to do. There are many health and social care policies that ensure health is promoted, these policies and procedures are the ‘Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992’, ‘Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999’, ‘Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (COSHH) 2002’, and ‘Food Safety (General Food Hygiene) Regulations 1995’. All these policies make sure that the service user’s healths are not affected when they are working in a ...

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